Following on from KitGuru's revelation that Asus has launched the Essence One audiophile amp at CeBIT 2011, we've now spotted a pair of full-spec Blu-ray players. Does this mark the beginning of a sustained Asus-assault on the living room?   You be the judge. OK, so you'd expect a Blu-ray player …

Following the huge interest in KitGuru's recent stories about top end headphone and streaming media devices, we couldn't help smiling when we noticed the gorgeous Essence One on the Asus stand at CeBIT 2011. KitGuru dons dark glasses and approaches with pitch-perfect ears set to maximum definition. Having created one …

Although we're not allowed to tell you the results of our in-depth testing, we have been told that ‘sneak peak' images and a little info are allowed to be revealed just prior to the launch of what is certain to be the fastest graphics card the world has ever seen. …

No one will really know how much momentum Fusion has, until this time next year, when the 2011 financials come through from AMD and we can analyse them in detail. What we can say for sure is that the more products that offer Fusion, the better chance it has of …

Is not often KitGuru is settling down for to enjoy genuine delicacies from country of Uzbekistan in general, let alone Samarqand province in particulars. But such is life among the battle hardened comrades who are beings invited to get the hands on with the latest of gamings from Codemasters. KitGuru …

The Kinect device has been a massive seller for Microsoft in the last couple of months. The modding community have also taken to it with open arms, with many videos already on Youtube showing it doing all sorts of weird, and sometimes wonderful things. Microsoft have announced that they are …

An Egyptian man has named his daughter after the popular social networking site – ‘FaceBook'. The Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram is reporting that 20 year old Jamal Ibrahim has decided to call his daughter ‘Facebook' in honor of the service that has helped anti government protests overthrow Egyptian dictator Muhammad Hosni …

The original ‘just in time' philosophy might have been Japanese, but it seems that Intel's engineers are passing around the parable as well. So, how close are they?  KitGuru attaches safety lines and prepares to investigate the bridge. Working like flayed demons, Intel chipset engineers across the globe have been …

Apple didn't even attend the World Congress in Barcelona, but they walked away with the top award for a mobile device. The World Congress event in Barcelona is one of the biggest events of its kind in the world, but Apple decided not to make an appearance, much as they …

Just 10 months ago, KitGuru was a glint in Zardon's eye. Now, as we pass Valentine's Day 2011, the site traffic has been growing so fast that action was required to ensure smooth delivery. KitGuru steals an ID pass for a fortified data centre and slips inside Multiplay Command Central. …

In one of the highest profile stories in recent weeks, Nokia have joined forces with Microsoft with plans to use their Windows operating system on their new smartphones. Google CEO Eric Schmidt has said that Nokia came very close in signing a deal with Google to develop Android handsets, but …

Ever wondered what happens when you combine a mobile phone with a gaming mouse?  That's a question that seems to have puzzled scientists at Razer's technology and design centre, floating above planet Earth in a geo-stationary orbit above Tesco, Southend-on-sea (or so we're led to believe). KitGuru spies report back …

Being a fanboi requires a special kind of mentality. Flying in the face of reason, it is up to you to ridicule and mock ‘opposing' products, even if it makes you look like the biggest bigot on the planet. Many of the big forums online have had flame wars at …

Technology companies (and others, selling far less important products) can celebrate this morning as the serious stock market numbers climb way back up. KitGuru dons a Bud Fox mask to explain. August 2008 was a huge turning point for the world. Decades of financial misjudgement came to a head with …

At the Distree XXL conference in Monaco, AMD have been chatting with KitGuru and they told us that they have shipped over a million Fusion chips already. While this is a positive number for AMD to be quoting at such an early stage, it all boils down whether AMD will …

LG Electronics won't be too popular among gamers with the recent reports that they are lodging a patent infringement against Japanese hardware giant Sony. They want the Playstation 3 to be banned from the USA. LG are saying that the console is infringing upon LG patents related to the playback …

The Smartphone market is a competitive arena, with many companies trying hard to grab consumer attention to maximise their sales. In 2010, Apple and Android vendors have managed to grab a greater market share thanks to the strength of their operating systems and partnership deals. Nokia and Research In Motion …

Latest rumours to hit Kitguru from Taipei indicate that Apple are due to launch the iPad 2 later this month, and will release it for sale one month later in March. There have been so many rumours and so much debate of the hardware included in the iPad 2 that …

Sony Ericsson used a TV commercial last night in the Super Bowl to offer a sneak peak at a new smartphone which is designed for playing video games. This device is called the Xperia Play and looks to be running the Android operating system. Sony Ericsson have said on their …

But how safe is it? Intel doesn't really do ‘Total Recalls' like this. It's scary stuff. The company that effectively made the global market for microprocessors is such a galactically huge corporation, with advanced R&D the like of which has never been seen before, that no one ever really expected …

KitGuru reports often on legal action cases, often with a little bewilderment. Today we have heard that a Mexican woman has instructed lawyers to take legal action against the BBC's flagship motoring show Top Gear. For those of you in dear old blighty, you may have seen Jeremy Clarkson and …

“There's never a good time to have a problem, but if you're going to experience an issue then at the start of a transition is as good a time as ever”. That's Intel's opinion. But is it realistic? KitGuru investigates. Intel's experienced very few problems during its existence. To be …

Following yesterday's announcement from Intel that there is a problem with the chipset necessary to support the 2nd generation Core processors, codenamed Sandy Bridge, a lot of eyes have turned to AMD. KitGuru's been asking the important questions. Yesterday, we were all struggling to remember the last time that Intel …

Collated publically available information on US cases against P2P filesharers shows that 100,000 US peer to peer users have been sued in the last year. The findings also highlight that the adult entertainment business is high on the prosecution list. Out of the 99,924 people sued, the vast majority are …

Intel has announced today that there is a flaw in the 6 series chipsets which accompany the new Sandybridge processor family. With the cost of this issue likely to top $700m very quickly, KitGuru has been investigating. At the very least, there will need to be a massive re-engineering effort, …

Keeping its options open, Intel now cosies up to several operating systems at the same time. Around the 3rd week in April 2011, it will push out a tablet/mobile OS with Nokia. Hardware will surely be close behind. KitGuru investigates. Turn the clock back 10 or so years, and you …

It has been 5 years and a global saturation programme to convince us that the “Future is Fusion”.  Now the product has launched, where is it hiding?  KitGuru dons a safari costume, picks up a set of high-powered binoculars and goes in search of AMD Fusion. In contrast to the …

This is going to be a tough article for people in the United Kingdom to read because let's be honest, our ISP's generally suck. Even the fastest quoted ISP's such as Virgin Media incorporate hideous packet shaping during the evenings, which can reduce glorious 50mbit lines down to 3-5mbit in …

A recent report from Good Technology shows that Apple's iOS devices are growing in the enterprise sector, now accounting for 65 percent of all devices activated. The report for some reason is ignoring Research In Motion and their BlackBerry enterprise mobile phone. If they were included, Apple and Android would …

In KitGuru's most recent survey, a whopping 70% of readers said that they would go and buy a 30″ TFT panel (2560×1600) at the end of the month if the price was less than £500. That's a HUGE amount of sales. Why are the panel guys ignoring it? KitGuru is …